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Font technology makes text look as sharp in pixels as it does on paper

The average adult in developed societies spends upward of six hours a day looking at screens — TVs, computers, smartphones and tablets. As the choice of what to watch widens, we become increasingly picky. We demand more perfect experiences from our devices, all the time.

Monotype has developed advanced software to render, scale, optimize and display type on screen as vividly as ink on paper, on any device. Our core technologies keep memory and efficiency top-of-mind. We offer your engineers total control over type, so they can deliver great-looking text effortlessly, internationally, on any device.

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The better your rasterizer, the more legible your text. And they don’t come better than our iType® font engine. By instantaneously placing the outline descriptions of characters on a pixel grid and intelligently painting the underlying pixels in black and grey values, we deliver pin-sharp text to smartphones, eReaders, TVs, cameras — every kind of digital display. Engineers have more say over how text looks, too, with iType tuning and hinting controls, and OpenType® features that aren’t available with other rasterizers. Learn more about legibility controls.

It takes time to read text. But that doesn’t stop us wanting it on our screens instantly. The Monotype iType® font engine delivers great-looking text without any delay or knock-on effect on speed or features. Taking up minimal space, iType is ideal for even the smallest devices. Engineers can utilize memory controls not offered by free rasterizers, including full-quality scalable fonts with a run-time RAM footprint as small as an itty-bitty 20kb. Learn more about memory and efficiency controls.

When you take your products into new markets and cultures, they need to fit right in with customers. That includes the text they see on screen. Monotype has some smart solutions for delivering non-Latin text to the screen seamlessly, such as tools for shaping and rendering Indic characters more efficiently. And on devices that require multiple languages, we can help you combine and manage the vast character sets of Chinese, Japanese and Korean in just one file. Learn more about language controls.

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Mapping Enhancement SDK

The readability of text within maps is key to the user’s experience and overall utility of the mapping system. Our SDK provides access to a new range of capabilities for GPU-enabled platforms and provides a range of advanced text functions for mapping systems. Learn more about Monotype’s
Mapping Enhancement SDK.